Maybe Freddie Roach is just a big Henry Rollins fan?
The world-renowned boxing trainer, charged with making former Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre a better striker, claims “Rush” was asking for a middleweight title shot against current 185-pound titleholder Michael Bisping, but the Brit flat-out turned him down.
Safe to say “The Count” had a good laugh.
Hahahaha funniest bullshit I’ve ever heard. https://t.co/ZrXCztWGyV
— michael (@bisping) July 13, 2016
“I like Freddie Roach,” Bisping wrote on social media. “He must be misinformed. He’s not the type to spread lies. I wasn’t even offered the fight.”
Bisping is slated to rematch Dan Henderson in Manchester later this year (more on that fight here), but was flirting with a St-Pierre fight earlier this month when the Canadian dynamo teased a potential mixed martial arts (MMA) comeback — at middleweight — with the gold on the line.
Meanwhile, in the 170-pound division…